Interview: Director Nanfu Wang on the dangers of accepting propaganda as truth
August 27, 2019
When I asked Nanfu Wang, the Chinese documentarian behind 2019’s chilling One Child Nation, about the possibility of artistic freedom in China, she simply laughs. “More freedom in China?” Wang repeats. “Where?” In a certain sense, Wang is all too familiar with the draconic methods of the Chinese government and the propaganda that they use […]
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Nanfu Wang challenges her family’s beliefs–and her own–in the shocking documentary ‘One Child Nation’
August 14, 2019
Back in 1979, China implemented a revolutionary program known as the One-Child Policy, which aimed to curb the rising population within the country. As the name suggested, families were limited to only one child per family–two for those who lived in the countryside. Objectively, it was a massive success: the policy successfully prevented millions of […]
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